Hemp tools in Miasa village
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Many thanks to
Anjuna Trance World
for providing us with these photographs from museums in Miasa mura.
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Asakiri: Used to separate
the fibres from the stalk.
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Kobakiri: Sickle used to remove leaves from stalks
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Kanakushi: An iron comb used to brush the fibre.
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Kine: A pestle
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Ogama is an iron tub in which hemp stalks were boiled.

Oshigama: Used to cut roots off hemp stalks.
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Tatami ito seizouki:
A machine to make the
string for tatami floors.
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Press for hemp bundles
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Itoguruma:
Spinning wheel for hemp yarn
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Nawanaiki: machine
for making hemp rope
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See also:
Miasa village,
Hemp cultivation,
Hemp museum,
Building with Hemp
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